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- # Section 22-23 from Shakespeare's Sonnets
## Overview
This entity is a section labeled "22" and "23" extracted from a text file, likely containing two sonnets by William Shakespeare. It spans lines 10563 to 10596 of its source file and was extracted on January 30, 2026.
## Context
This section is part of the larger [SONNETS. chapter](arke:01KG6S4GWYPZNAPTTX8SV5VW42), which itself is contained within the [PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53 collection](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y). The content was extracted from the file [pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA). It follows [Section 21](arke:01KG6S5PA35KV1EV88S0V55NZZ) and precedes [Section 24](arke:01KG6S5PA44GM6SC86PQQS8KV4), indicating its sequential position within a collection of sonnets.
## Contents
The section contains the full text of two sonnets. The first sonnet, labeled "22", begins "My glasse shall not perfwade me I am ould," and explores themes of youth, age, and the interconnectedness of hearts between the speaker and the beloved. The second sonnet, labeled "23", starts "As an imperfect actor on the stage," and discusses the speaker's inability to express love perfectly through words, suggesting that written works (books) should convey his unspoken affection. Both sonnets are presented with archaic spelling and punctuation characteristic of early modern English texts.
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- Section 22-23 from Shakespeare's Sonnets
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- **M** Y glaffe shall not perfwade me I am ould,
So long as youth and thou are of one date,
But when in thee times forrwes I behould,
Then look I death my daies should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth coues thee,
Is but the feemely rayment of my heart,
Which in thy breft doth liue, as thine in me,
How can I then be elder then thou art?
O therefore lout be of thy felfe fo wary,
As I not for my felfe, but for thee will,
Bearing thy heart which I will keepe fo chary
As tender nurse her babe from faring ill,
Prefume not on thy heart when mine is flaine,
Thou gauft me thine not to give backe againe.
## 23
**A** S an imperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his feare is put befides his part;
Or some fierce thing repleat with too much rage,
Whose strengths abondance weakens his owne heart;
So I for feare of trust, forget to say,
The perfect ceremony of lous right,
And in mine owne louses strength feeme to decay,
Ore-charg’d with burthen of mine owne louses might:
O let my books be then the eloquence,
And domb prefagers of my speaking breft,
Who pleade for lous, and look for recompence,
More then that tonge that more hath more expreft.
O leame to read what silent lone hath writ,
To heare wit eies belongs to lous fine wiht.
## 24
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